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Women in Late Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age (Diversity and Aging) - Softcover

Holstein, Martha

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9781442222878: Women in Late Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age (Diversity and Aging)

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Women in Late Life explores thorny issues related to gender and aging, including ageism, cultural expectations, body image, caring at the end of life, chronic illness, Social Security, caregiving, and more. Blending personal narrative with current research, this interdisciplinary look at gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.

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About the Author

Martha Holstein has spent forty-one years working in the field of aging both in the community and in academia. At Loyola University, she has taught health care ethics while at the University of Chicago she teaches aging and health policy. She also works on long-term care policy at the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group in Chicago. For many years she was the associate director of the American Society on Aging and a Research Scholar at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith and Ethics. She has published widely in academic journals and books, is co-author of the recent work, Ethics, Aging, and Society: The Critical Turn, written with two Loyola colleagues and the co-editor of several books, including Ethics in Community-Based Elder Care.

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9781442222861: Women in Late Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age (Diversity and Aging)

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ISBN 10:  1442222867 ISBN 13:  9781442222861
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015
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